Anybody here play with slot cars?

[Ghoste]

Helped a friend set one up to amuse his visiting relatives this week so it just made me wonder.

[Aero426]

No layout running at the moment, but lots of HO's in storage and quite a few old and modern 1/32 cars on display.  

[Chris]

Have about sixty feet of track set up in the basement (HO Scale). Plan on doing a bigger track next year.

[Ghoste]

Photos?

[A383Wing]

still got a lot of my HO slot cars from the 70's...plus some of the HO AFX Daytona's.....and my 1/32nd scale Eldon first gen Charger slot car set.

Got some of the 1/24th scale cars I used to run at local tracks....but I can't find them right now

[Ghoste]

What scale is the most popular modern one?

[A383Wing]

probably the 1/24th scale for local tracks that you go play on....my guess would be the HO scale for home use

I wish I could find my cars that I hand built and ran on our tracks back in the 80's....we have a local track a mile away from me here...I really want to run my cars again...I gotta look harder for them

[cudaken]

HO slot cars is what turned me into a HO train Junkie!  I have around 30 slot cars and around 8 of them are Dodge Daytona's and 3 Super Birds.

When the train bug bite I had a 300 foot layout, beefed up power supply for each lane and feeder wires all over the layout.

Big reason I got out of slot cars was because I could not find anyone to races with. Trains on the other hand are fun by them self.

Few Pictures.

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Cuda Ken

[Ghoste]

Is it popular to do them up with scenery and stuff like the model railroaders?

[cudaken]

Is it popular to do them up with scenery and stuff like the model railroaders?

Ghost, that is how I caught the train bug. I was on E Bay looking for HO scale trees and buildings. Few of the lots had train stuff in with them that I bought. Bought a few junk Life Like train sets for $35.00 after seeing them on E Bay. By then I was hooked.

Now I have some HO Steam Engines that cost $700.00 alone?  And I use my computer to run the train layout? 

Stay away from Trains, stick with Slot Cars and Mopars! 

Part of the old Slot Car layout.

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Cuda Ken

[tracpack440]

I collected a lot of afx cars when I was younger.  I have more cars and track sets. This is a sample
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[stripedelete]

I had this set when I was a kid.  It seemed like there was another set with 1st gens.
Dad gave it to one his buddies for his kids.  

I'm tempted to hit but-it-now button and buy back some great memories.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1968-ELDON-DODGE-Mopar-3-in-1-Slot-Car-Road-Race-Set-Coronet-Charger-D100-/261345346625

[A383Wing]

yea..I got the first gen set...3 cars, red, yellow, & white Chargers

[71 SE3834V]

A few from the memory room. Thinking about cleaning house and putting 'em up for sale.

[70 sublime]

I have the Carrera 1/32 slot cars
There used to be a fair number of guys around that we raced with but the numbers keep going down and there is not much racing now

I find I am more just collecting the dodge stuff now
Last count I was just over 100 cars

[C_stripes]

Heres a few of my Mopars


Real aluminum slotted mags on the bee

[JB400]

Haven't got into slot cars yet, but I did notice Hobby Lobby had the Dukes of Hazzard version

[Ghoste]

There is also the Mopar drag racing version out there.

[tracpack440]

Nice collections

[stripedelete]

There is also the Mopar drag racing version out there.

Had that one too.   If remember the transformer "popping" on christmas morning.   It was covered by the 5/50.

[Ghoste]

Did you have the new one thats out now or one of the vintage ones

[stripedelete]

Did you have the new one thats out now or one of the vintage ones

It would be vintage today.      Back then it was brand-spanking-new.   

Somewhere there is an old Christmas pic of me shifting gears.

[Ghoste]

The Dodge or the Plymouth version?

[stripedelete]

The Dodge or the Plymouth version?

dodge

[Ghoste]

Thats great!  I think I might have to get some of that stuff for the rec room.